№46, (2010)

The Day knows that Ukraine has an enormous recreational potential, and if only there was as much attention paid to the development of tourism in our country as it is done in, for example, Turkey,...

Greek prime minister reshuffles cabinet Greece’s Prime Minister George Papandreou has considerably overhauled his cabinet. Only the finance minister managed to retain his post. According...

It seems that after a partially successful visit to Germany Yanukovych did a little better with eastern diplomacy. In contrast to Berlin, the People’s Republic of China did not ask for...

Recently the parliament has adopted in the first reading the bill suggesting the establishment of two additional tax police departments: the Main Department of Special Investigations, and the...

We have long become lazy and indifferent to all kinds of political actions using the Maidan as a base. However, GogolFest, which opened there last Saturday, was able to gather an unprecedented...

1769: Ivan Kotliarevsky, a Ukrainian author and first new Ukrainian literary classic, is born in Poltava. 1913: Military pilot Pyotr Nesterov becomes the world’s first person to fly a loop (later...

This year the newly-opened Sevastopol Institute of Banking will enroll 300 students (first and second year) from Sumy, Sevastopol, and Crimea (Crimeans making up 80 percent). In the future there are...

Kyiv’s cinema-lovers have numerous events to look forward to, including the new Future Shorts Project, the national premiere of the Ukrainian independent project bigmina Mudaky (Arabesky), and the...

Rivne’s policemen and their head Oleh Salo will learn English at the Ostroh Academy. An agreement has been signed by the head of Ukraine’s UMVS (Ministry of Internal Affairs) in Rivne oblast Oleh...

Moldova has been without a pre-sident for a long time. Under the current constitution, he or she is to be elected by parliament. Yet neither the ruling liberal democratic coalition Alliance for...

Lviv – Lavriv – Lviv – Twenty icons were the result of the first stage of Carpathia-2010, an international festival which has been held in Starosambir raion, Lviv oblast, for a second time now....

In late September New York will host a top-level UN General Assembly where global leaders will discuss progress towards reaching the Millennium Development Goals. President Viktor Yanukovych will...

The Honey House — a sort of a honey museum — was recently at Mukacheve, in Zakarpattia oblast. There one can relish different varieties of honey and learn about the benefits of apiculture products....

The park is an oasis of beauty and mystery. Taking a walk across Uman’s Sofiivka Park always brings out those special kinds of contemplations. It was built for a beloved woman. Don’t...

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Vasyl Stus, a brilliant Ukrainian poet and an extraordinary personality, whom Ivan Dziuba described as a “morally crystal-clear man....